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Charles H. Baker

Cocktails

The Alamagoozlum Conspiracy

Charles H-Baker’s five-spirit, egg white cocktail—a supposed favorite of J.P. Morgan’s—seems too ludicrous to have existed. Maybe it didn’t.

  • story: Drew Lazor
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
Cocktails

Bring Back the Queen Bee

Bartender Abigail Gullo re-imagines the Buenos Aires-born Charles H. Baker classic.

  • story: Drew Lazor
  • photo: Eric Medsker
Cocktails

The D List: Bringing Back the Antrim Cocktail

Bartender Selma Slabiak makes a case for this forgotten classic from the mind of “a careful, almost clinical, student of potable liquids.”

  • story: Drew Lazor
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
recipe

Bumble Bee

A crowd favorite, this frothy, rich and bright drink is from Charles H. Baker’s The South American Gentleman’s Companion.

  • story: Leslie Pariseau
  • photo: Ed Anderson
recipe

Gin Fizz Tropical

A fancy silver fizz from Charles H. Baker's 1939 Gentleman’s Companion made with orgeat, pineapple gum and a decadent garnish.

  • story: Leslie Pariseau
  • photo: Ed Anderson
recipe

Pan American Clipper

The original Clipper recipe was sourced from a Pan Am pilot.

  • story: Tatiana Bautista
Cocktails

Why Your Daiquiri Isn’t the Same As Hemingway’s

The founder of Small Hand Foods investigates why the limes America’s bartenders used a century ago are at odds with the citrus we shake with today.

  • story: Jennifer Colliau
  • photo: Daniel Krieger
recipe

Mexican Firing Squad

The Mexican Firing Squad is one of the many cocktails documented by world traveler, cocktail writer and historian Charles H. Baker, discovered at the La Cucaracha Bar in Mexico City…

  • story: Leslie Pariseau
  • photo: Daniel Krieger
recipe

Remember the Maine

Described first by spirits writer Charles H. Baker in his 1939 classic, the Gentleman’s Companion, this rye-based drink has an ingredient list that’s part Sazerac, part Manhattan.

  • story: Leslie Pariseau
  • photos: Daniel Krieger
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